Joy is the owner of the Local Search Forum, LocalU, and Sterling Sky, a local SEO agency in Canada and the USA. A Google Business Profile Product Expert, public speaker, Joy is one of the leading local experts in the SEO industry. 

Ben is VP and founder of Steady Demand. He helps agencies with local search services, he’s a GBP reinstatement pro and a map spam assassin. As well as this, he’s a Google Business Profile Diamond Product Expert, making him a go-to for all things local. 

Krystal Taing is Director of Pre-sales Solutions at Uberall and a prolific speaker on a variety of industries, from retail to hospitality, to healthcare to finance and beyond. She has spent the better part of the last decade in SEO and e-commerce, with a focus on local search since 2014.

Stefan Somborac is the founder of Marketing Metrology and a Google Business Profile Platinum Product Expert. Stefan loves working with small businesses, where the results of effective marketing are appreciated by the people who care about the business the most: its founders and owners.

Dale Bertrand has been an SEO specialist to Fortune 500 companies and venture-backed startups around the world for two decades. His clients include global brands such as Citizen Watch, Nestle, Raymond Weil, Exxon Mobil and Bulova. He applies his graduate school work in artificial intelligence to search engine marketing. Dale speaks at industry conferences, leads corporate training events and serves as Entrepreneur in Residence at the Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs Organization. He has trained marketing professionals from TripAdvisor, Microsoft, HubSpot, Digitas, Exxon Mobile and Proctor & Gamble. Dale has BS and MS degrees in Computer Engineering from Brown University.

In 2016, at just 24 years old; Tanesha co-founded Armchair Marketing, taking just three months to acquire multiple well-known, international brands such as Toyota, Autotrader, Lexus and more to her PPC portfolio.

She has multiple-award winning experience in Google PPC & social media. Tanesha's experience spans 9 countries, with over 18,500 locations targeted and 3.5 million key phrases under her management.

She is also a regular speaker at some of Europe’s largest SEO & PPC events.

Celeste is SEO Strategist at local SEO agency, RicketyRoo, where she is passionate about local SEO, content, and testing. She's a writer, public speaker, and judge for the 2024 Search Engine Land Awards.

Owner of Reputation Arm, and Google Business Profile Product Expert, Claudia is passionate about local SEO. She helps businesses create their brand presence and achieve their goals with opportunities through Google. Claudia often shares new GBP feature tests and updates on X.

Myriam Jessier is a seasoned digital nomad with over 15 years of experience in SEO. They help global brands deal with tricky international SEO issues tied to multilingual countries such as Luxembourg, Canada and Switzerland. Myriam co-founded the Neurospicy Agency, a unique boutique consultancy focused on neurodiversity and how it impacts UX, marketing and accessibility.

Elizabeth Linder is Director of SEO at Kick Point. She manages a broad range of SEO projects, with a special focus on helping local businesses fight spam and get meaningful links. She keeps her entire team up-to-date with the ever-changing world of SEO and loves live-tweeting about local SEO conferences.

Sofia is an experienced content writer and strategist, specializing in SEO. She has worked in content marketing in-house and agency-side. Alongside her role as an SEO Content Editor at a SaaS company, she is also the Content Strategy Lead at a charity called The 93% Club.

Preeti Gupta is the founder and SEO at Packted. She helps established businesses improve their website with user-friendly SEO, including great content, great user experience, and a great brand. She also shares resources to learn SEO on her website, LinkedIn, and YouTube.